Archive for the 'Infrastructure' Category
Elon Musk Warns Starlink Users in Ukraine That Russia Could Target Them
March 4th, 2022Update: Musk Says SpaceX Working on Cyber Defense & Overcoming Starlink Signal Jamming SpaceX reprioritized to cyber defense & overcoming signal jamming. Will cause slight delays in Starship & Starlink V2. — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 5, 2022 Some Starlink terminals near conflict areas were being jammed for several hours at a time. Our latest […]
Ukraine: Fire Breaks Out at Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Plant After Shelling
March 3rd, 2022Update: Fire Extinguished [???] Via: Reuters: Russian forces seized the largest nuclear power plant in Europe after a building at the complex was set ablaze during intense fighting with Ukrainian defenders, Ukrainian authorities said on Friday. Fears of a potential nuclear disaster at the Zaporizhzhia plant had spread alarm across world capitals, before authorities said […]
Starlink Systems Delivered in Ukraine
March 1st, 2022That was fast! Remember the days when Starlink was just about bringing better Internet access to rural households? haha See, Musk Activates Starlink Internet Service in Ukraine for context: What is Starlink’s actual purpose? …the massive scale of the project and the rapid approval by the U.S. Government made me think that there had to […]
Can Startup’s New Drilling Technology Unlock Limitless Geothermal Power?
March 1st, 2022Via: Interesting Engineering: Quaise Energy plans to use millimeter-wave drilling systems that can reach depths where geothermal energy is virtually unlimited. The firm will drill with microwaves in order to go deeper than ever before. On its website, Quaise Emergy describes the technology as follows: “Our gyrotron-powered drilling platform vaporizes boreholes through rock and provides […]
Musk Activates Starlink Internet Service in Ukraine
February 26th, 2022Cryptogon 2019: Recently Retired USAF General Makes Eyebrow Raising Claims About Advanced Space Technology: If you’re like me, you’ve been wondering: What is Starlink’s actual purpose? I didn’t entirely believe the prosaic narrative about better rural broadband Internet and a funding source for Elon Musk’s Mars aspirations, etc. Well, it might be about those things […]
Ukraine Says Russian Forces Blew Up Gas Pipeline in Kharkiv
February 26th, 2022If you live in continental Europe, you might want to make sure you have some extra sweaters and jackets on hand. Via: CBC: Zelensky’s office also said Russian forces blew up a gas pipeline in Kharkiv, the country’s second-largest city.
U.S. Considering Large Scale Use of Offensive Cyberweapons Against Russia
February 25th, 2022This is from an email I wrote to a friend a couple of weeks ago. After mentioning some aspects of the COVID scam, I wrote: The whole thing lurches from one giant scam to the next. I just hope the next one doesn’t involve mushroom clouds. Flash forward to today. I haven’t been posting much, […]
Geomagnetic Storm Takes Out 40 SpaceX Starlink Satellites
February 9th, 2022Via: SpaceX: Unfortunately, the satellites deployed on Thursday were significantly impacted by a geomagnetic storm on Friday. These storms cause the atmosphere to warm and atmospheric density at our low deployment altitudes to increase. In fact, onboard GPS suggests the escalation speed and severity of the storm caused atmospheric drag to increase up to 50 […]
Airlines Ask Biden to Delay 5G Rollout, Warn of ‘Catastrophic Aviation Crisis’
January 20th, 2022Via: The Defender: Executives from the biggest U.S. airlines asked the Biden administration for “immediate intervention” in today’s scheduled rollout of 5G technology near major airports, warning of an impending “catastrophic” aviation crisis when AT&T and Verizon deploy new 5G service. Numerous international airlines in response canceled flights to certain U.S. airports — one suspended […]
Sweden: Drones Over Nuclear Power Plants
January 18th, 2022Via: The Warzone: Police in Sweden have confirmed a new drone sighting near the Forsmark Nuclear Power Plant. This comes a day after the Swedish Security Service announced it was taking over the investigation of a number of earlier reported drone incursions into the airspace near that plant, as well as around two other nuclear […]
